Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Major C. R. Gurney.) contact marks, very fine £160-£200

Christopher Richard Gurney was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 27 February 1909 and served as a civilian employee with the Sudan Government, R.E. Special Reserve, from 8 October 1910. He served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 August 1914, before being attached to the Indian Army as a Captain on 26 June 1917. He subsequently served with the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners as Acting Major and Company Commander of the 63rd Company.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card which confirms he also received a 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals; and an I.G.S. with clasp for Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919.